(Eagle News) — A Quezon City court on Thursday acquitted Major Harry Baliaga Jr. of arbitrary detention charges that stem from the abduction of activist Jonas Burgos over 10 years ago. Branch 216 Presiding Judge Alfonso Ruiz II made the acquittal after ruling that the prosecution “failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt the identity of (the) accused as the person who abducted and arbitrarily detained (Burgos).” “No eyewitness testified to identify the accused Baliaga as […]





